Congress has passed a 26 billion dollar funding package for states. The money will be used for education and health care funding.

California will receive just under 10% of a 26 billion dollar
funding package passed by Congress.

The state will receive almost 2.5 billion dollars for education and
Medi-Cal.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had counted on receiving three
hundred million dollars more for his budget projections, meaning
now state lawmakers will need to find a way to close that financing
gap. Yet, H.D. Palmer, with the California Department of Finance,
says Schwarzenegger is pleased with the package.

"[Governor Schwarzenegger] also believes that California taxpayers
have been shortchanged by the federal government in a number of
programs, including Medicaid, and this is funding is a good down
payment on what we are owed," Palmer says.

The Congressional budget office estimates some 16,000 teachers in
the state will keep their jobs because of the funding. And
state officials say the twenty percent of Californians covered by
Medi-Cal will continue to receive services uninterrupted.